Reckless drivers who blow past stopped school buses could soon face bigger fines for their offense.

The state Senate passed a suite of bills Wednesday meant to keep kids safe, including measures that would increase penalties for overtaking stopped school buses and expand school bus safety education programs.

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A third bill would transfer the revenue generated by fines for illegally pass a school bus to a safety training program for study and promotion of bus safety.

“Increasing penalties and education around school bus safety measures is an important step to ensure that our communities are safer and young people’s lives are not put at risk,” Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said.

The safety-minded measures were approved by the Senate just two weeks after a 7-year-old Queens boy who had just stepped off his school bus was struck and killed by a church van meant to pick him up.

Cameron Brown, a second-grader at P.S. 43 in Far Rockaway, exited the bus and walked behind it when the van crushed him, according to witnesses.

State Senator Tim Kennedy (Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News)

“As parents we want to make sure that our children are safe and we trust that when they get on that school bus that they will be safe and return safely to us and get to and from safely,” said Sen. Tim Kennedy (D-Buffalo), the chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee who sponsored the bill upping penalties.

Under the bill, a first time offender would face a fine of $350-$500, while someone repeatedly blasting past stopped buses could face fines up to $1,000.

The package of legislation also adds a school bus safety component to driver’s education courses, provides more funding to the Comprehensive School Bus Driver Safety Training Council to study and develop proposals to reduce illegal school bus passing, establishes a school bus motorist education fund and increases penalties for illegally overtaking and passing a stopped school bus.

New York School Bus Contractors Association president Corey Murihead of the Logan Bus company applauded the advancing of the measures.

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“Protecting our children as they travel to and from school should be just as high a priority as protecting them while at school,” Murihead said. “By ensuring that drivers are taught from the very beginning the dangers and illegality of passing a stopped school bus, we are empowering drivers to make safer decisions while on the road.”

A separate measure allowing school districts to install stop-arm cameras on school buses to help catch and fine people who refuse to stop while their lights are flashing already passed the Assembly earlier this year and is nearing a vote in the Senate.

Top transit advocates have championed the bill and last week called on Gov. Cuomo and legislative leaders to fast-track the legislation.

If a stopped bus is illegally passed, the camera, mounted on the swinging stop sign affixed to the side of the bus, turns on, capturing the driver’s license plate.

The companies that supply the technology also offer bus companies and school district GPS-tracking and cameras that can be mounted inside the vehicles, which could help prevent bullying and other safety issues that arise.

Kennedy, the bill’s Senate sponsor, said the chamber is close to finalizing the language of the bill and that it will be sent back to the Assembly for reconciliation once all the technical details are ironed out and all districts have access to the technology.

“We are working through the minutiae of the bill and that includes making sure the bill ultimately works for all municipalities regardless of wealth of a district or the lack of wealth in a district," he said. "So we want to make sure that, across the board, every municipality has the ability to take advantage of these stop-arm cameras regardless of whether they are a wealthier or poorer district.”